Here’s the scene:
Your daughter has somehow killed the 14th power adapter this year for her tablet. First, micro USB was supposed to be the answer.
Then it was the lightning cable. Great - another standard to deal with. Cool name though.
And then it was USB-C and we thought we had died and gone to heaven because after a few years everything took the same charger.
The problem?
Everything takes the same charger
That means that there somehow are more devices than chargers and chargers disappear or the wire frays at the end even though the website states that it’s been tested 10,000 times.
In reality it hasn’t been tested by a 7-year-old that yanks on the cord or by the roomba that thinks charging cables make a good snack.
This leaves you with less cables than devices.
Always.
There’s a fix for that: buy the name brand one for a few bucks more, add some cables and you don’t have to think about the charging situation for a while.
Just keep an eye on the 7-year-old.
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